Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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Sh**ter v. reality
[Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No bets allowed. Reality already won out, and Sh**ter's on the mat for the count.
Sh**ter just doesn't understand what Glenn was saying. The two quotes are hardly inconsistent with each other.
Cheers,
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@ GoldenToddler
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Arne thrashes on the hook with the best of Glenn's Army. Keep waving your hands, Arne, some folks might be distracted. You've certainly managed to bury your own head in the sand.
Translated into proper English (so to speak):
"Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!"
Cheers,
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Some eedjit's functionally illiterate
[Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But Saddam needed to act like they [WoMD] were present for his own political purposes, and assumed (properly) that no one would come in and call his bluff.
People did call his bluff (although it's quite arguable whether Saddam was actually going around trumpeting his cache of WoMD in the first place). You'd think that someone with the cognitive capacity of a five-year-old might have noticed that the U.S. weapons inspectors were there and finding nothing (which makes one wonder WTF Dubya was thinking when he said, long after the invasion, "He [Saddam] wouldn't let them [the inspectors] in" and what's why the U.S. decided to invade).
Now that that's settled, we can wait a couple posts before this eedjit will offer up this offal as troot once again. Only his child psychologist knows the reasons behind this peculiar behaviour of exhibiting his extremely limited cognitive capacity on a daily basis in a medium that will record this for posterity. But he'll do it again and again, our little Republican troll. Sad, really.....
Cheers,
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Internet Rule #1
[Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Don't post something that shows you're rock-solid stoopid in a place where you can't delete it." Example -- Sh**ter: "In short we believed a liar."
Those of us that didn't may find it difficult to fathom why someone would voluntarily admit such cluelessnes and credulity. Good thing for him he goes under a nom de scat, or the e-mail scammers would be all over him like flies on sh*te.....
Cheers,
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Some gullible eedjit who believed Dubya's Iraq war lies wrote:
[Read the article: The Padilla verdict]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry bud, you're going to have to show me that verbiage in reflection of current law. "Because I said so" isn't going to fly....
"... unless I'm sucking Dubya's hind teat, in which case anything that comes out are drops of pure gold." Like when he says he's only wiretapping al Qaeda (but strangely enough can't be 'troubled' to get a FISA warrant for it...)
'Nuff said.
Cheers,
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cestmoi123
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn]: "We single-handedly prop up tyrannical governments in scores of nations using financial and military aid."
"Scores" of goverments? Please name the >40 (at least two score) "tyrannical" governments we are single-handedly propping up with financial and military aid.
Try getting out and reading a bit. Might start with Stephen Kinzer's historical overview detailed in "Overthrow".....
The "'stans" are just the newest additions to the fold.
Cheers,
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Reece0
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's missing from our imperialism is a grand attempt to gain territory to hold as colonies or protectorates. There is a legitimate point to be made that American Imperialism is not the same as British Imperialism, or Austro-Hungarian Imperialism, or Roman Imperialism, or Islamic Imperialism.
I beg pardon to disagree. You might ask, should you be interested, where our fiftieth state came from....
There's Billy Bragg's "Marching Song of the Covert Battalions":
http://www.lyricstime.com/billy-bragg-the-marching-song-of-the-covert-battalions-lyrics.html
if musical myrics suits your mode of instruction better.
Cheers,
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rlsumi
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All it takes for evil to triumph ...
"Do you believe that the "foreign policy community" enabled the Iraq War? Given the political facts of life in the fall of 2002, do you really think that think tank protests would have derailed the war? Is a failure to oppose Iraq the same thing as cheerleading the invasion?"
... is for good people to do nothing.
Well stated, my good person. But I think it goes further. "I shouldn't oppose wrong because I can't do anything about it. So I sang its praises instead."
Makes sense to me.
Cheer,
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@ DCLaw1
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Again, however, it's a largely semantic quibble to protest the empire designation, rooted centrally in the negative connotations associated with an empire. Ultimately, the rift between those who think the US has become an empire and those who do not, I believe, largely tracks the extent to which one thinks American power is malignant or salutary, on balance.
Yes. Let's not get tied up in semantics when everyone pretty much agrees on what is being done. Glenn's real point was that the "empire builders" and their entourage are convinced that what the U.S. is doing is "salutary" -- nay, even Sublimely Good And Necessary To Fight Evil -- and therefore right. See, e.g., Glenn's book "A Tragic Legacy"....
Cheers,
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Some eedjit wrote, in the middle of some foaming about the Aeternal Virtues of Capitalism:
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want more food in the third world dismantle protections around GM crops.
Oh. Like the ones engineered to only bear crops for one or a couple generations, and then go sterile, so you need to buy more seed -- from the big multinational corporation that invented it.... Right. What was I thinking?
Cheers,
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@ dontcallmefrancis
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read his statement as being just the opposite. As in dismantle regulations forcing people to buy gm crops.
Knowing Sh**ter, he was bitching and moaning about European (and some other countries as well) efforts to ban import of GM products and seeds. He luvs "free market" capitalism, but he luvs him big bidnezz's "right to exploit 'free' markets" more....
FWIW, I don't know of any "regulations" forcing anyone to buy GM crops.
Cheers,
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@Stoopidator
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We're citing one poll that's a year old, another that's nearly six months old, and ONE SINGLE POLL that's current.
Yeah, them's good, current facts for you!
Yeah. Like three more than the Beltway media are quoting.....
You know, of course, that polls tend to cover 'abstruse' subjects less often, so there's likely a time gap from the last poll that asked a specifric question. If you think there's more current data that contradict (at least as of now) Glenn's conclusions, out with them. <*crickets chirping*>
Cheers,